Exhibition Preview: Unseen by my Open Eyes

On December 2 Dublin artist Kevin Gaffney launches a new book at the Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, as well as an exhibition featuring four films exploring the 'construction, projection and manipulation of identity'.

The focus is A Numbness in the Mouth, a 17 minute vision of a self-sustaining militarised Ireland shot in a 19th century Dublin flour mill which explores our relationship to food, its production and consumption.

In The Mirror is Dark and Inky, daily life in Iran is interrupted by a whale living in a bathtub. Our Stranded Friends in Distant Lands reflects on geographic, political and emotional separations in South Korea.

The films are contextualised in an essay by critic Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith and the exhibition is accompanied by the first monograph of Gaffney's work, published by Black Dog Publishing in London. It runs until January 25.